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On 2002-10-27 01:05, The Goldstandard wrote:
Infants are born with a blank slate, and you can't really judge them as good or evil until they get old enough to know the differece. If you were just born, how <i>could</i> you know the difference between good and evil? I don't think that it is possible for people to be born already with a tendancy toward being evil. Becides, if people were inherently evil, why isn't the crime rate higher? You can't really say that parents instill morals in them because nowadays most parents are for the most part incompetant. (IMHO)
Personally, I believe that humans are benign, or neutral, when born. It is their parents that influence them, their actions making niches in their minds, and their morals given as to what is right and wrong. What does parental incompetence have to do with this? Nothing! Whatever the parents do in front of their child, even if it is the smallest thing like petting a dog, to swearing at a neighbour, the child records it in it's mind.How this happens, I do not know. But it's usually who the child is exposed to for the most part that determines their morality.